The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5
=> In which Ashur Bet-Solomon makes a plea...for attention
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pancho
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- Wednesday, December 4 2013, 18:06:26 (UTC) from *** - ***  Mexico -  Windows NT -   MozillaWebsite: Website title: |
...if they guy is such an assyrian, how come he writes in Arabic and has a Jewish last name...? Anyway....he wrote an appeal to some Arab politician....I realize of course that he never actually mails these to the many people he has appealed to for years...stamps cost too much and he wouldn't know how to get their address anyway...and who the fuck would bother? Plus which all it is is a thinly veiled insult, filled, as always, with his "opinions" which are supposed do as well as actual facts, of which, of course we know better than anyone, he has NONE. I like how he signs himself off as the editor of two, TWO, count 'em, assyrian "magazines"...these are no magazines by any definition known to civilized man or woman...they are repositories of propaganda...you learn nothing there except how much hatred the staff has for Muslims and how ignorant they are....Bet-Solomon is desperate for recognition, for reaffirmation, the poor fellow WANTS to be someone of significance but hasn't learned how to go about it and that it takes WORK...so he puffs himself up and that satisfies him, I guess. My own preamble to this farrago of nonsense and bigotry.... ...you people betrayed your land, you were traitors to it every chance you got, which was every time a Russian or Euro or American dangled some trifle in front of you...be grateful that Arabs have been so consistently tolerant as to excuse your seditious behavior, which would have gotten you hanged anywhere else....the Arabs SAVED your piddling Christian sects from the Byzantines, who would have made short work of you as they did of all Christian "Heretics"...you would have been massacred by the Roman Orthodox Christians, or driven to exile, or forcibly converted as so many others were "brought" to Christ. The Arabs did not cause your numbers to drop, the Byzantines would have though...the Arabs allowed your mind-numbing sects, each with its own demented variation on a bad thing to begin with, to go their ways in peace, so long as they KEPT the peace and stopped fighting against each other with the bands of thugs and ruffians each bishop assembled. The Romans would have disappeared you from the face of the earth, as they did so many other sects. It was the Arabs who saved you from that. In return they merely asked you to pay a small tax, that is military-age men, all others were excused form this tax and you were exempted from military service, quite a benefit really...and for this they protected you from further attacks from marauding Christian Romans who tried again and again to get their hands on you....you benefited further from the Millet system which gave you religious autonomy until it was destroyed for you by Euro Christians who made war on your homelands in WW I, when you again played traitor for their benefit and your ultimate undoing...as you did yet again when the United States and its Christian allies decided it was time to attack your homeland yet again, and on trumped up charges and well-proven lies. Put THAT in your "magazines". An Appeal to Mr. Amr Moussa, the Arab League Secretary General, Cairo - EGYPT It is very essential that as Assyrians to express our views and feelings in a civilized manner, and not try to cover them with deception that doesn’t reflect our situation in any way. A case in point, when the Pope quoted the 14th Century Byzantine emperor, most of our religious leaders came forward refuting that which in fact doesn’t reflect the reality of our relation with Arab Muslims period. It is important to know that the first who criticized Islam was a Nestorian Patriarch from the late 7th century A.D. by name Khnan-Eshu ܚܢܢ ܝܫܘܥ (684-690A.D.) during a visit by the Caliph Abdul-Malik) 684-705 A.D( who came to Mesopotamia in order to crush a rebellion . The Nestorian Patriarch paid a visit as it was a habit when dignitaries arrive, the Caliph asked him what he thinks about the Islamic religion, the Nestorian Patriarch replied without concealing his motives that it is, “A political state which was created by the sword, and not a religion which is confirmed by miracles as it is the case with the Christianity and Judaism religions.” By such remarks, the Caliph was outraged and ordered someone to cut his tongue, but fortunately the interference of the Caliph‘s entourage spared the Patriarch tongue from such sever and savage punishment, according to Bar Hebrews /ܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐ which was quoted ‘by Joseph Nasrallah , Paulesian Press Library, Beirut, Lebanon 1991 that Sarjoon or the poet Al-Akhtal (Christian Arabs )were the one who interfered on behalf of the Nestorian Patriarch. No question, that the Assyrian power was in decline and never existed during the Arab Islamic invasion in the mid seventh century A.D., but the damages that such INVASION caused to the Christians and here the Assyrian people in particular in the area are beyond imagination to a point that it affected them even though that power i.e., the Arab Islamic hegemony came to an end in the middle of the 15th century A.D. or before , because such power came to an end at the hands of those who became MUSLIMS by themselves and carried the torch of Islam to name, the Turcomans, the Ottomans, the Qurds and the Persian Iranians. The Arab Islamic invasion affected the Assyrian a great deal and affected others as well, to name the Arameans, the Canaanites, the Eblaites and the Egyptians. It was crystal clear that our Assyrian people and others as well tried to challenge occasionally such hegemony which transformed all these concurred people to be under the process of Arabization and Islamization. How ironic it is to see an Egyptian, a Syrian and an Iraqi /Mesopotamian try be proud Arab and erase that bright history and culture that stretches over 8000 years span to be replaced by a new Arab Bedouin one, no matter how magnificent they were, because to us – as Assyrians – our history and heritage is the best as the Arabs think of themselves which we respect that. Sadly to say that an Egyptian intellectual by name ‘Professor Shouqi Dheif شوقي ضيف tried to defend the Arabic language and say how the Arabic language have superseded the Syriac language and proudly declared that the victory was to the Arabic the language of the noble QURA’N to eliminate our Syriac language in his writings (History of the Arabic literature, the Era of the Ignorance – العصر الجاهلي page 25). It is essential to be familiar with such religion or nationalism, i.e., the Arab / Islamic phenomenon , to read a very important book which is written by a revered Muslim and an Arab scholar by name ‘ Ibn Khaldun , in his Introduction/Moqaddemah المقدمة , where you will find why and what these new invaders from the Arabian peninsula did to change the demographic setting of the Middle East and especially how they were successful to erase two of the most advanced and civilized people , i.e., the Assyrians and the Egyptians. To become a Muslim writes ‘W. Montgomery Watt in his book ‘the Majesty that was Islam’ Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1976: “One had to be attracted by Islam as a religion. To become a Muslim one had to become an Arab at least by client ship; and in addition one had to learn Arabic, since for centuries all religious thinking was in Arabic.” Page 260 By implementing such harsh policy, the Syriac Speaking people in the Fertile Crescent were almost Arabized and Islamized except in some degree in Assyria where a large of the Assyrian Christian pockets existed, but unfortunately the Ottomans policy during and after the WWI were slaughtered and murdered in cold blood by such inhumane GENOCIDE policy that the Assyrians paid a very heavy price to loose at least one million of the Assyrian population ( see Kak Bajalan, “ ##### Times,” Vol I, No.2, Summer 1992, Fairfax, Va. 22030 ). In conclusion, let it be crystal clear that we respect the Arab nation and the Islamic religion, but we also need in return a mutual respect for our ethnicity, language and religion as well, because such respect never existed up to this time as we speak during the last 1400 years or less since the Arab Islamic invasion and incursion in our homeland. Today, as a result of such savage and inhumane policy, our population dwindled to a degree that in certain places never existed period and it is a tragedy that should be addressed , if such trend continues, in a very near future the only Assyrians will remain ,will be those monuments and artifacts in our homeland , and if such thing happen, then the history must reveal the truth and put the blame where it belongs , i.e., on those of the most savages with due respect , i.e., the Arabs who claim, “ that the history never knew conquerors more merciful than the Arabs!”. I think it is time to act and appeal to his Honorable Amr Moussa عمرو موسى, the Arab League Secretary General by voicing our concerns, opinions and demands to achieve at least the following: An apology from Mr. Amr Moussa , the Arab League Secretary General in the name of Arab nation and Islam as well – because he is a Muslim and preside over 100 million people who are Muslims too- to be presented to our Assyrian nation officially, for the cruelty and abuse that our people went through in the last 1400 years or less, and A proclamation to be issued in recognition that we are the real indigenous people of our land ASSYRIA/ North of Iraq and our Culture, Language and Religion must be preserved and respected by all the Arabs and Muslims alike without any discrimination. In conclusion, we hope from his Excellency to challenge his preceding Arab and Muslim officials to implement justice and open a new era of reconciliation and understanding in our land that once was called the Cradle of Civilization. ......................................................................... Note: this draft was prepared and submitted by Ashur Beth-Shlimon an Assyrian activist and Assyrian language editor of two most known Assyrian publications, the Assyrian Star magazine, the Organ of the Assyrian National American Federation and the Assyrian Sentinel of the Assyrian Universal Alliance over 7 years ago. --------------------- |
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